What Are You Listening To?

[Music Head]

Band Members for this release

Chris O'Connor – bass, vocals
Jeff Sparks – guitar
Tim Lauterio – drums



Recording History

studio albums - 5
compiliation albums - 3
ep's - 1
singles - 3

from my library (cd)



Producer: Chris O'Connor

1st studio album - #36 US
singles - Standing Outside A Phone Booth With Money In My Hand - #1 US Modern Rock chart
.............Motherfucker

Bought this for the standout Phone Booth track and I probably did a wth? when I first heard it. Three other tracks I liked but 6 I didn't. Too alternative I guess. Even the
Phone Booth track is out there, but the B.B. King sample sucked me in. The band began under the name I-Rails as a 3 piece with O'Connor as the frontman. After 4
albums the band split but O'Connor continued to work on the left behind tracks and released them as Primitive Radio Gods. It was disregarded by the public so he hung
it up to pursue a career as an air traffic controller. Four years later he was house cleaning and came across the masters. He sent out copies to any label he could think
of. It got him a deal with Fiction records when an executive heard the Phone Booth track. That song was first used in the Jim Carey movie The Cable Guy. That four year
old album then got re-released with Phone Booth as a single and the album went gold. The band was re-united and four albums since then have not come close to that
success. Looks like a 1 hit wonder at this point.

I DO NOT LIKE THIS ALBUM

Worst Track - Are You Happy
Best Track - Standing Outside A Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand

[video=youtube;4XJxFAoiWSY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XJxFAoiWSY[/video]

Track Listing

1. Women
2. Motherf**ker
3. Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand
4. Who Say
5. The Rise and Fall of Ooo Mau
6. Where the Monkey Meets the Man
7. Are You Happy
8. Chain Reaction
9. Skin Turns Blue
10. Rocket

3's - 1
2's - 3
1's - 6

grade - 1.5 of 3.0
allmusic - 2.5 of 5.0